Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura’s debut novel The Longshot, about the world of mixed martial arts, was a finalist of New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and is presently being developed into a film by director Peter Berg. Katie has also written for The New York Times, Guardian, Wired and Frieze. In 2006 she returned to Japan in an attempt to discover her family home, the result was the travelogue Japanese for Travellers.

“Hemingway’s returned to life – and this time, he’s a woman”
– Tom McCarthy

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